Flotsam and Jetsam - A Thin Sunday Collection

A really light crop today, which may say more about my diligence in collecting than lack of appropriate material.

Jazz Shaw at Hat Hair reports The New Speaker Will Separate Ukraine and Israel Funding, My goodness, you can do that? You don't have to throw all the possible spending into one or two giant pots and vote them up or down? What a novel idea!

Matt Vespa at Town Hall finds Amazon's Alexa agrees The 2020 Election Was Stolen. Who am I to disagree? I'm just a lowly human. 

Jonathan Turley is shocked, shocked that Bowman Video Contradicts His Account to Congress, the Court, and the Public "Bowman has insisted in Congress and court that he was confused and thought that the door (closed for any purpose other than an emergency) would open if he pulled the fire alarm. The video, however, shows Bowman not only taking the emergency sign off the door but never stopping or looking back as he pulled the alarm. There was not even a glance back to see if the door opened. Instead, he quickly walks away with the sign." 

John Lucas at Brave Blue concludes The Biden Administration Reaches New Heights of Reprehensibility. Could you be more specific? 

Apparently multiple White House aides have been involved in this abomination because Politico is quite specific: “The White House has been quietly urging lawmakers in both parties to sell the war efforts abroad as a potential economic boom at home.

“Aides have been distributing talking points to Democrats and Republicans who have been supportive of continued efforts to fund Ukraine’s resistance to make the case that doing so is good for American jobs, according to five White House aides and lawmakers familiar with the effort and granted anonymity to speak freely.”

The Biden administration is fearful that it cannot sell the additional aid package on the merits and on national security grounds, because “The talking points are an implicit recognition that the administration has work to do in selling its $106 billion foreign aid supplemental request — and that talking about it squarely under the umbrella of national security interests hasn’t done the trick.

I guess I used that Country Joe and the Fish video too soon. 

From Da Wire, NewsGuard Runs Cover For Terrorists In ‘Fact-Check’ Of Ben Shapiro "Media monitoring group claims “we still don’t know” who’s to blame for Gaza hospital blast caused by Palestinian terrorists." Dave Zweig at Lunch tries to track down the original source of the claim that 500 Palestinians were killed in the hospital, concludes the American media misread an Hamas tweet in an Al Jezeera report, and ran with it, Did the Entire Media Industry Misquote a Hamas Spokesperson? "I asked a dozen reporters and news outlets for the source of a statement they attributed to Hamas. None of them answered. This is a case study of the failure of journalistic standards." Victims became killed. 

At Da Wire, ‘This Is F***ing The USA’: New Yorkers Rip Into Man For Tearing Down Flyers Of Missing Israelis. New Neo wonders Why leftists are Hating the Israelis and Jews even more after the October 7 attacks? "Anti-Semitism is a protean and flexible instrument, as well as an incredibly virulent and long-lived one. This has been clear for a long time, but it’s now even more clear." Jon Gabriel at AZ Central opines Here we go again, shrugging off the warning signs of antisemitism and what comes next

 "To those who condone violence against Jews, people of good conscience must say with conviction, 'Never again.'"

Althouse blogs "Right now, I’m in trouble because the Jewish community is upset. But I cannot express this enough: No matter what you read..." ""... about that show in Boston, you will never see quotation marks around anything I said. They don’t know what I said. It’s all hearsay.... The other night, I said something about Palestine in Boston and got misquoted all over the world... And I will not repeat what I said." Said Dave Chappelle, at a show in Raleigh, N.C., quoted in "Dave Chappelle Laments ‘Nightmare’ Facing Israelis and Palestinians/The comedian, whose remarks about the Israel-Hamas war last week made headlines, returned to the subject at a show in North Carolina" (NYT)." Don't know, don't care. Great comedian, but maybe not the best role model.

At Campus Reform, California professors worry calling Hamas terrorists will reflect badly on them: report, "The University of California's Ethnic Studies Faculty Council objects to the institutions' use of the word 'terrorism' in institutions' statements on the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in southern Israel." What other term do you prefer for murdering babies? Late term involuntary abortions? Paul Caron at the Tax Prof blog reports Mitchell Hamline Adjunct Law Professor Resigns, Claiming School Supports Antisemitism. 

On TwitterX, Hat Hair finds an Important Note For "Queers For Palestine" Visegrád 24@visegrad24, "A Palestinian scholar from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem sends a message to the “Queers for Palestine-crowd” in the West: “The people of Palestine will not allow a single homosexual in our land," such perversion brings the wrath of Allah”"

From the College Fix, Conservative Harvard professor describes ‘condemnation’ for views on marriage, abortion. "Harvard School of Public Health Professor Tyler VanderWeele detailed the saga in a nine-page article titled “Moral Controversies and academic public health; notes on navigating and surviving academic freedom challenges.”" But so far, he's still there.